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What’s the Harm?

So, Texas is taking a stab at reintroducing biblical teachings and concepts into classrooms beginning next year according to The Associated Press.

At issue is whether basic Judeo/Christian doctrines should be taught from a historical perspective and whether the bleed from history to proselytization is a slippery slope.

Unless one is adamant that such moral and ethical underpinnings were not a part of our nation’s history, a view that most rational people would dismiss, the fact is, we, at a minimum, were once more Christianized and Judaized.

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Endangered black-footed ferret reintroduced

SELIGMAN – For the first time in almost 30 years, Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) biologists performed a re-introduction of ten endangered black-footed ferrets to the once-flourishing Aubrey Valley/Double O Ranch area, attempting to re-populate the only active recovery spot in Arizona.

The ferret kits were captively bred at one of six sites across the country, including the Phoenix Zoo. The kits were then taken to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado, where they learned to hunt and live in the wild.

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